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Oct 2023
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Upper-intermediate | Battling Internet A...

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Some addictions are better than others. Internet addiction, for example, is bad. Bad, unless of course, the addiction revolves around being on the internet compulsively reloading chinesepod.com every five minutes. Replaying each link of each podcast until slumped over in a heap. Pinning up pictures of the most active users on your wall. This good. Other addictions bad. Learn more in this podcast, in Chinese. 500 times. Episode link: https://www.chinesepod.com/1021

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